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Black Studies and America's Cultural Assumptions

home, psychologically, is that all things French are worthy of being known, while anything that is the color black is associated w...

Overview of the Black Plague

disease he was now apparently immune to. It is interesting and informative to note that Tuchman and Defoes work exist in very d...

Working Poor According to Beth Shulman and Barbara Ehrenreich

addresses in her book, which also deals with the plight of the working poor. Like Ehrenreich, Shulman argues against American soci...

Workplace Freedom of Speech

logos of their choice or, for that matter, to raise the occasional question about management priorities," she adds. The pr...

Period Representations of Raphael and Hans Memling

as some of the finest examples of the clarity, harmony, and balance of the art of the High Renaissance. "Virgin and Child with Sa...

Santa Barbara Equipment Management Case Study

considerations are numerous. John Boorman is the liaison between upper management and the technical workers who made the blunder. ...

Gowdy and Davies on Motherhood and Birth

creating a permanent rift in her relationship with her children. Whiskey seems to be the only substance that can...

"The Zimmerman Telegram"

Allied side. America had the men, material and production capacity to turn out the equipment needed to overpower the Germans and e...

MAJOR BARBARA AND MOTHER COURAGE: STUDIES IN SOCIETAL VALUES

kind of societal action, that forms society and provides the means for salvation. While Barbara fights on the side of good and rig...

Barbara Novak/American 19th Century Art

"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...

California History/Santa Barbara

("Santa Barbara County History"). The founding of Santa Barbara and its original characteristics The next stage of Santa Barbara...

Barbara Ehrenreich on the Working Poor and Not Getting By in America

could earn $7/hour, she could perhaps afford something that cost $500/month, or $600 with "severe economies," but anything else wa...

Moving the 49ers to Santa Clara

the industry. The San Francisco 49ers is popular across the country, and its local fans approach rabid devotion. The team ...

Critique of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

text is a virtual diary of her experiences and observations. The text is effective in that the author is never condescending to t...

Summary of Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Hottentot Venus

The author totally immerses herself in the tragic Venus many hardships, imagining what she saw, felt, and experienced during her s...

'Making Sense of La Difference' by Barbara Ehrenreich

writers point of view; as straightforward as this concept might appear, the author duly notes how there are myriad variables that ...

'Inner Discipline' of Educational Theorist Barbara Coloroso

them ways to solve the problem; and 4. It leaves their dignity intact (Give Poor Parenting a Time-Out, 2002, p. 12). Barbara C...

Guide to Postproduction for TV and Film by Clark and Spohr

the reader with step by step information, charts, and other information that takes the reader through the entire process from star...

2 Feminist Books/Domesticity

womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...

Ehrenreich's Attitude in "Nickel and Dimed"

routinely refuse to raise the minimum wage, allowing business to get away with its perpetual whine that if they increase their wor...

Summary and Review of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed

for contemporary social issues has been reflected in her thirteen books. In 2001, her text Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By ...

Kelly's Expanding the American Dream

able to construct homes inexpensively (Kelly, 2004). Additionally, he would bypass union workers for those who came at a lower pri...

An Article on Cancer Patients' Psychological Interventions Examined

and retention" (Andersen, 2002, p. 603). This then should be the first priority: to design a study that will accrue and retain ...

Eloquent Speech Examples

to what she seeks are the tasks necessary for the future. She closes with once more alluding to the uniqueness of an African Ameri...

Reviewing Feminism's Evolutionary Nature

until the womens liberation movement of the 1960s. As women focused on greater political, social, and economic equality, however,...

David Brooks's Bobos in Paradise

In three pages the reader's reaction to Brooks' book after reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich is considered. Three so...

Barbara Kellerman: “Bad Leadership”

man was right" (Kellerman, 2004, p. 29). This is the dilemma which, Kellerman argues, no one wants to acknowledge: that bad, even ...

Summer of 1999 New York Outbreak of West Nile Encephalitis

epidemic of brain inflammation in and around New York City during the summer of 1999 was in fact West Nile virus (Enserink, 1999b)...

Is America Still America the Beautiful

This paper considers the words to the patriotic song America the Beautiful then compares Katherine Bates ideas enunciated in the s...

The Literature as a Lesson in Community Health Care

Effective community nursing demands a familiarity with the culture, subculture, and/or socioeconomic group being attended....